Score 94% cvg its no surprise to see simcity 2000 holding onto the top spot. Simcity 2000 is a citybuilding simulation video game jointly developed by will wright and fred. A windows playable version, simcity 2000 special edition, was released in 1995. Playstation, saturn, dos, mac, or any other versions of the game that may exist.
Pc gamer lovely graphics and an involving simulation make this game a classic. In addition to simulating a city, the simcity titles have always been the most aesthetically appealing of strategy games. Now you can design any city you can imagine and simcity 2000 will bring it, and its resident sims, to life. In game simcity 2000 mac special edition, you can design the entire city in the way you want to. Theres a few other gameplay songs, as well as the short melodies played when the newspaper comes up. The baseline specs for the 2011 imacs are quite solid for gaming, particularly something as simple as simcity.
Simcity 2000 special edition is free on origin pc gamer. For instructions on how to play on your intel mac download the mac os x dos file and please go here for instructions. Simcity 2000 sc2k is a simulationcity building computer game and the second installment in the simcity series. Simcity is an openended citybuilding video game series originally designed by will wright. Building sim, simcity 4 rush hour patch, simcity 4 update, and many more programs. A few years ago i received a sim city 2000 easter egg, a cheap chocolate. Simcity 2000 has been released for several platforms. Dec 09, 2014 electronic arts is giving away maxis classic city building game simcity 2000 for free right now as part of the publishers on the house promotion for origin. Youve built roads and pumped water and zoned houses and factories and office buildings. Dec 24, 2012 when you build a main line rail station put a subway station or overhead rail station as near as possible to it, remember not more than 8 squares away otherwise soms wont connect. Simcity 2000 faqstrategy guide pc by headbanger gamefaqs. Zoomed out at airplane altitude, its amazing how much your city resembles a real metropolis. And you still dont quite know what the hell is going on. Maybe the simcity 2000 model had the same aversion built in.
Sims will hop off 1 transport system straight onto the next. Arcologies will bring a lot of crime, so build police stations nearby. Also, to everyone who was saying this game is worthless and get simcity 4 instead. Mar 08, 2017 this page contains a list of cheats, codes, easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for simcity 2000 for macintosh. You need to uncompress the 7z archive using the proper software please use keka to avoid problems. The mechanics of the game are largely unchanged from the days of simcity 2000.
Amiga 1994, microsoft windows 1995, snes 1995, sega saturn 1995. One tool i never figured out how to use properly is rails. May 03, 2011 this feature is not available right now. This is a selection of music from the macintosh version of simcity 2000. Simcity 3000 is little more than simcity 2000 with a very successful facelift. Mar 06, 20 the baseline specs for the 2011 imacs are quite solid for gaming, particularly something as simple as simcity. It has all the features, flexibility, art, animation, and power you need to create an environment of your dreams.
Ea is giving away simcity 2000 for free right now polygon. And dont expect to play this game on a slow mac even my power mac with dual 1ghz g4s tends to chug when i change zoom levels and such. The simcity 2000 special edition is the latest addition to origins on the house lineup, meaning its free, with no limits and no catches. Apr 09, 2015 in addition to simulating a city, the simcity titles have always been the most aesthetically appealing of strategy games. Players can build highways, roads, bus depots, railway tracks, subways, train depots and zone land for seaports and airports. Its interesting to hear the difference between the mac, windows, dos. Rails rails are a way of public transportation, and one of the kinds that you will have the hardest time of all getting your sims to use. This game has all the features, animation, art, power and flexibility that will help you to create an amazing environment of your dreams. If youve discovered a cheat youd like to add to the page, or have a correction, please. This page contains a list of cheats, codes, easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for simcity 2000 for macintosh. It has all the features, flexibility, art, animation, and. Special thanks to eric krause for compiling this list for me. Sc2k was first released by maxis in 1993 for computers running the apple macintosh and msdos operating systems. Finally, simcity 2000 was the first simcity game to make use of the query tool, which allowed the player to see detailed information about whatever tile they clicked on while using the tool, proving an invaluable asset for detailed management of particular city zones.
Thanks to all the complaining, ea gave me simcity 4 deluxe for free. And mac users accustomed to a mac interface will likewise be. No one spills paint on a portrait halfway through to make it more of a challenge. It is the successor to simcity classic and was released for apple macintosh personal computers in 1993, after which it was released on other platforms over the following years, such as the sega saturn and snes game consoles in 1995 and the playstation in 1996.
When you build a main line rail station put a subway station or overhead rail station as near as possible to it, remember not more than 8 squares away otherwise soms wont connect. Mar 11, 20 another new addition in simcity 2000 is the query tool. Simcity 2000 mac os classic the cutting room floor. If you do have problems running simcity 2000, we suggest re. The secret to minimizing traffic congestion is a wellplanned mass transit system that covers every building in your city. Current simcity classic players will be able to start playing. In practical use, bus depots wouldnt have this significant of an impact on a city since 24 bus depots is overabundant for a simcity 2000 city. I wasnt really into doing anything that involved a large capital outlay at the time which means i never built subways. Electronic arts offers simcity 2000 special edition for. Simcity 2000 cheats, video game cheats, online video game. Simcity 2000 has been tested with many, many extensions with few or no problems however, we cannot guarantee that there will not be conflicts. As for 202d, but the square is not submerged at all. Simcity 2000 is the only game in the entire series to have this feature. Also drop in a bus station at every subwayoverheadmain line rail station.
Hollywood in fiction mac os games nec pc9801 games nintendo 64 games oakland. Simcity 2000 on playstation in short simcity 2000 is a superb title that is going to keep you hooked. If youve discovered a cheat youd like to add to the page, or have a correction. This page contains a list of cheats, codes, easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for simcity 2000 for pc. Players could build highways, roads, bus depots, railway tracks, subways, train. Build roads not rails a grid pattern works very well. Using the query tool on tiles reveals information such as structure name and type, altitude, and land value. If the archive contains a dmg, double click it to mount the disk. This is another set of songs from the mac version of simcity 2000.
Featured in the book simcity 2000 power, politics and planning. Sim city 2000, sim city 3000, or sim city 4, i run them alongside roads because that is how it is in real life. You absolutely need three things to start a city in simcity 2000. And since its windows i wont have to use all the ridiculous workarounds for mac. The title was bumped up to registered trademark status throughout v1. Simcity 2000 is an amazing game, from whichever perspective you choose. Anything designed to circumvent drm is not permitted. Long before electronic arts got its hands on the simcity franchise, there was the inaccurately named simcity 2000. Maxisthis is a recording originally flac, but available in multiple formats through the internet archive of the simcity 2000 midi soundtrack, using a custom soundfont created by rich weeds nagel and tom zarggg. Simcity 2000 is the second game in the simcity franchise, first released in 1993 for mac and dos. Why has the creators of the new game not expressed any interest in using the subway system, a great way for transportation. Simcity 2000 tips and hints here are a few tips i found and made up for simcity 2000.
This city is also known as rubigger featured in the book simcity 2000 power, politics and planning, revised edition but in that version the launch arcos are hidden using the magic eraser. At the beginning, you are given a piece of land and some cash. Modifications to the core game engine for simcity 20. Theres not a single road in this town, just rail stations and a couple of subway stations and it worked just fine without the subway stations. It was later rereleased on a number of different platforms, including. I used to mess around with this game as a kid, but i never got very good at it. A community dedicated to the simcity series, cities. Another new addition in simcity 2000 is the query tool. This iconic title debuted on macos in 1994, and continued being quite popular all. Incorporating four years of customer suggestions, simcity 2000 combines dozens of new features and stunning threedimensional graphics with the intuitive interface and engrossing gameplay that made the original simcity which has been rechristened simcity classicthe original city simulator so successful. Build a mix of residential, commercial, and industrial zones not more than 3 blocks from a road. Put these around if you need to go under buildings or mountains or water. Simcity 3000 had a horrible true3d, fullscreen interface that was klunky and hard to use, as well as running far too slowly on most systems.
Simcity 2000 cheats, video game cheats, online video. Its easy to forget, but simcity 2000 was on the forefront of highresolution gameplay. Choose from a selection of bonus cities and scenarios to rule or ruin as you please. Spiralopolis one road spirals from the center outward. Simcity 2000 faq pc version by ed the moogle final revision. Also drop in a bus station at every subway overheadmain line rail station.
You should use subway in cases where you need to extend a sims traveling distance from one zone to another. Electronic arts is giving away maxis classic city building game simcity 2000 for free right now as part of the publishers on the house promotion for origin as ea is quick to point out, there. Whichever topic comes to your mind, simcity 2000 will have it covered brilliantly. Simcity 2000 is a citybuilding simulation video game jointly developed by will wright and fred haslam of maxis. Simcity 4 goes back to isometric graphics, so i had hope that this would be another one as good as simcity 2000. Its possible that, if certain extensions are loaded in a certain order, or in certain configurations, simcity 2000 might not work correctly.
Simcity 2000 was also ported to many consoles, ranging from the snes to the gba, and is also available on psn what a city. Simcity 2000 allows the user to build and manage a metropolis. Mick foley shot shapes and packed them into a city, while justin mccormick went bug hunting and caught the big nasty ones. Easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for simcity 2000 for macintosh. Simcity 2000 midi soundtrack mac os soundfont version game. Simcity 2000 adds many features that were missing from the original. Well, i said yes before, but actually, work has to be. I used to play this game a lot growing up on a mac lol and really wanted to play it again. I dont know exactly what it is, but i do know it involves more than just typing stuff. Simcity 2000 was also ported to many consoles, ranging from the snes to the gba, and is also available on psn. Simcity 2000 cd collection mac abandonware from 1993 to date, macintosh repository served 1057898 old mac files, totaling more than 191037.
That 5x5 mile plot of tan territory is your canvass and zones, roads, and buildings are your brushes. You have several options available, though to truly take advantage, at. Lay roads, subways, highways, and railroads to connect the zones and watch your city grow as citizens immigrate. One of the advantages of being old is that you have plenty of stories to share. For simcity 2000 on the pc, faqstrategy guide by headbanger. Below is a list of inventions, the date they are invented, and some additional info. Some inventions in simcity 3000 come at the most unexpected times, but when do they come.